cramping

1. (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
2. To affect with cramps or spasms.
3. To prohibit movement or expression of.

   You're cramping my style.

4. To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.

   You're going to need to cramp the wheels on this hill.

5. To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp iron.
6. (by extension) To bind together; to unite.
7. To form on a cramp.

   to cramp boot legs

noun

The action of something that cramps.